Nigeria Will be Safe When Politicians Stop Using Thugs - Gov Bello
Category: Kogi News
Bello made this on Wednesday during an interview on Channels Television breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily.
“When politicians begin to stop the use of thugs, touts, or some group of criminal that is when we will begin to have safety and security,” Bello said.
The governor also stressed that he won the November 16, 2019 Governorship Poll without the use of ‘boys’ or thugs.
According to him, political thuggery and use of ‘boys’ during elections was the order of the day in Kogi before he came into power but he “refused to play that kind of dangerous politics.”
“When I came on board, I inherited a state that was largely divided along several lines. For you to aspire to be anything politically in Kogi State then, you must have what we call ‘boys’ or thugs or touts and then use it to intimidate people during political dispensations.
“Once the political exercise is over, the so-called boys or thugs or foot soldiers would be abandoned and left to themselves and by that, they breed into something else or a hydra-headed monster that you will not be able to curb at the end of the day. There are several histories, records, and intelligence to that effect across the country.
“But I refused to play that kind of dangerous or unnecessary politics when I came on board. My ascension to the office is known to everybody across the world. I chose my path immediately and decided to deal with criminals irrespective of political affiliations by simply utilizing the laws passed by the Kogi State House of Assembly and the existing security architecture,” he said.
He is very right but he is a major beneficiary of what he now condemn which he still encourage. Our political class and their sweet mouth sha.
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